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IP: Competition Is Heating Up for Control of .org Domain
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 08:54:15 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 07:35:43 +0200 To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Competition Is Heating Up for Control of .org Domain Competition Is Heating Up for Control of .org Domain By JOHN MARKOFF The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO, June 14 An intense, largely behind-the-scenes competition is under way for the right to manage the global database that keeps track of Internet addresses of noncommercial organizations. Although the business of registering Internet names has begun to shrink this year, as many as eight or nine bids are expected at a meeting this month in Bucharest, Romania, when the group that oversees Internet addresses will decide who should manage the list of names that end in .org. The decision will shift the .org domain from VeriSign Inc., which currently manages the list of 2.7 million organizations. The company struck a deal with the oversight organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, last year that extended VeriSign's control over .com and .net addresses in exchange for giving up the .org designation. VeriSign, based in Mountain View, Calif., also promised to contribute $5 million to assist in the transition. --SNIP-- http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/technology/15NET.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- geoff.goodfellow () iconia com, Prague CZ * tel/mobil +420 (0)603 706 558 "success is getting what you want & happiness is wanting what you get" http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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